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From: torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson)
To: Andrey Lisin <alisin@crystalnix.com>,
	Emacs Help List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How get escape sequence generated by keyboard shortcut in Emacs?
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:28:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d24uuhiy.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EC3D20A4-BC2D-4616-B59F-41CDB641FC2A@gmail.com> (Andrey Lisin's message of "Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:14:40 +0600")

Ah; in that case, I'm not sure you can do it. I think that such low-level information probably doesn't make it to emacs; it's interpreted by the OS first. Maybe someone can correct me if I'm wrong. "Shortcuts" like <backspace> seem to be as low-level as emacs gets. 

Andrey Lisin <alisin@crystalnix.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I’m afraid, I haven’t explained clearly. Let me provide a simple
> example. I use iTerm2 as my terminal emulator. And, for example, it
> generates ^[[1;2C for Shift+left arrow shortcut. My question is there
> a way to display this ‘^[[1;2C’ when I press Shift-left arrow inside
> Emacs? Probably, there are some specific mode.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Andrey Lisin
>
>
>
>
>
>
>     On 28 Feb 2015, at 22:02, Tory S. Anderson <
>     torys.anderson@gmail.com> wrote:
>    
>     I'm not sure I completely understand your meanings for "escape
>     sequences" and "keyboard shortcut", but you may find what your
>     looking for in either `command-history`, `C-h k` followed by your
>     keystroke, or `C-h l` to see history of your command. Are any of
>     those what you're looking for?
>    
>     Andrey Lisin <andrey.lisin@gmail.com> writes:
>    
>    
>         Hi,
>        
>         sometimes it's necessary to know what sequence generates
>         particular
>         keyboard shortcut. In my case, for instance, I need to know,
>         what escape
>         sequences is generated by Shift+arrow shortcut. Of course, I
>         can look in
>         terminal emulator settings, but I wish there would be a way
>         to make
>         Emacs show sequences it receives.
>        
>         Thank you!
>    



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-28 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-28 15:33 How get escape sequence generated by keyboard shortcut in Emacs? Andrey Lisin
     [not found] ` <87ioemuirj.fsf@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <EC3D20A4-BC2D-4616-B59F-41CDB641FC2A@gmail.com>
2015-02-28 16:28     ` Tory S. Anderson [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.1011.1425137633.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-28 17:25 ` Dan Espen
2015-02-28 17:45   ` Robert Thorpe
2015-02-28 17:51 ` Javier
2015-02-28 18:05   ` Andrey Lisin

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